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BOARD OF DIRECTORS (VOLUNTEERS)President: Lisa Portelli, Winter Park Vice President: Kim Walsh-Childers, PhD, Gainesville Secretary & Treasurer: Jay Wolfson, DrPh, JD, Tampa Philip Galewitz, West Palm Beach ADVISORS (VOLUNTEERS)David Lawrence Jr., Miami Martha Lenderman, Pinellas Park Pat Curtis, Tallahassee STAFF, CONSULTANTSEditor: Carol Gentry, St. Petersburg Jim Saunders, Capital Bureau Chief Executive Director: Ben Wilcox, Tallahassee Director of Marketing: Mary Frederick, Tallahassee Copy editors, both in Broward County: Sandra King, Gail Spencer Interns: MAJOR SUPPORTERSFlorida Health Policy Center: |
About UsEditor: Carol Gentry, St. Petersburg
She covered health and medicine for the St. Petersburg Times for 10 years, for the Tampa Tribune for two years and for the Wall Street Journal for three years, in addition to being a member of the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel in 2004-05. She has written for national magazines and been a commentator for public radio’s Marketplace; she is active in the Association of Health Care Journalists, serving as a judge for the awards each year. Ms. Gentry was a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow in 1994-95, conducting research on the managed-care movement’s impact on patients and health-care professionals. In 1996, she earned a master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in health policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has taught health journalism at the college and professional level in this and other countries and directed the Knight Journalism Fellowships at CDC for almost four years. She also served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia. Contact Ms. Gentry at at 727-410-3266 or by e-mail. |
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Carol Gentry, founder and editor of Health News Florida (originally, Florida Health News), has three decades of experience covering health finance and policy, with an emphasis on consumer education and protection.
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